Rug and carpet.



P. P. MOGRIDGE.

RUG AND CARPET,

APPLICATION rxLmJ Ammv, 1214.

1,119,856, rammed Dec. s, i914.

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UNITED YSTATES PATENT oEEIoE.

FRANK P. MOGBIDGE, 0F NIEBTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.-

RUG AND CARPET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8'; 1914.

'.Appiicaaon me@ Ap'rn 27, i914. serial' No. 834,783.

To 'all whom it may concern `'Be it known that I, F RANK P. MOGRIDGE, a citizen ofthe United States, and a'resident of Mertztown, in the county of Berks and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rugs and Carpets, of which the following is a lspecification.

My inventionrelates to rugs and carpets, and pertains more particularly to two-faced chenille rugs.

The object of my invention isto produce arug of-'greater weight and durability, and

which will lie flat and cling to the floor and which will not readily slide and fold up at its edges.

A further object thereof is to produc-e a rug or carpet-.of said character having a greater elasticity, and in which a mottled colorl effect may be attained.`

To these` ends and others to be hereinafter setA forth, my invention includes the combination and arrangement vof component parts to be hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims. v

, .In the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rug ofmy invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the warp and filling slightly spread apart; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

As rugs of this character have been heretofore constructed, they comprised a warp of preferred thread, and\a cross woot or filling of chenille of singlestrands. Rugs of such construction are liable, as shown by use, to turn up at their edges, and fail to lie flat on the floor. To overcomev this objection., and for the purpose of imparting a greater degree of elasticity and greater durability, and for 'the further purpose of accomplishing a mottled color effect, I have doubled the cross strand or woof of chenille and twisted same in the weaving.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the stutter warp threads, and 2 designates the Woof or filler threads, which, as shown, are woven on both faces of the war by the binder warp-threads 3,' thus pro ucing a double faced4 reversible carpet fabric. As shown in the drawings and for the purposes stated the woof threads 2 are doubled, and twisted on each other.

In the particular embodiment of my invention, the woof threads are preferably of chenille, and each. of the pair may be of a different color or shade to imparta mottled effect tothe rug, and said threads become twisted, asthey are unwoundA from vthe cop in weaving.

It will be appreciated that the structure thus described will impart a greater thickness and resiliencythan would be had from asingle str-.md of Woof threads of the same weight as both of the double strands, and that a mottled color effect may be' attained in the.rug by combining strands of Woof in pairs of different colors or shades. y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to be secured by Letters Patent is y l. A rug or carpet, vcomprising warp threads, and Woof threads of chenille woven therewith in units of two or more strands twisted on each other, substantially as described.

2. A rug or carpet, comprising stufer' warp threads, filled Woof threads of chenille in units of two or more strands twisted onv each other woven on both faces of the warp threads, and binder warp threads inter` woven with said twisted fller'woof on the` opposite faces of the stufer'. warp, for the purposes set forth.

FRANK P. MOGRIDGE.

Witnesses ERNST MUENCH, Fiumi WrrrMAN.

Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,119,856.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,119,856,1granted December 8. 1914, upon the application of Frank l P. Mogridge, of Mertztown, Pennsrlvania. for an irnprovement in "Rugs and Carpets. errors appearrequiring correction as follows: Line 8U. of the printed specilication, for the word filled" read Jler.' in the drawings the binder ivarp threads should be indicated by the reference-numeral 3,.' and that the said Letters Patcwt should be read with these correctionel therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Olice.

Signed and sealed thi 26th day 0f January, A. D..` 1915.

[SEAL] R. F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting Commz'sm'oner of Patents. 

